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lingerie

lingerie

86 4.8
Clothes that women wear under other clothes, often thin and pretty
  • noun
  • /ˈlɑːnʒəˌreɪ/
  • NSFW
translation icon : lencería
  • She bought a beautiful set of lingerie for her anniversary celebration.
  • a lingerie shop

He handed me a red lingerie set and some fluffy slippers.

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Examples

  • There's a sale on women's underwear... in our ladies' lingerie department.

  • Why don't you put on the lingerie if you like it so much?

  • My main goal is to show that lingerie can be fashion.

  • Sarah, thank you so much for the love on lingerie week.

  • This is a lingerie shop, sir.

  • And you would model the lingerie, and then the gentleman would purchase it.

  • The wine at dinner helps; the sexy lingerie she has started wearing helps, too.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • Yeah, this college has entertainment, restaurants, Quick Marts, and even lingerie shops!

  • Junior Bud had drifted away to study the lingerie on display at Victoria's Secret next door.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Some silk lingerie?

Synonyms

underwear
vslingerie
507 1.0

Clothes that you wear next to your skin under other clothes

is the women's version that is often delicate and attractive
underthing
vslingerie
  • Informal
3 8.4

A piece of clothing worn under other clothes like socks or an undershirt

is the refined and feminine version intended to look delicate
intimate apparel
vslingerie
  • US
1 3.7

Clothes women wear under other clothes, for example bras and panties

is the same idea but highlights delicate attractive styling
underclothing
vslingerie
1 1.4

Clothes you wear next to your skin under other clothes

is specially feminine and made to be delicate and attractive
undies
vslingerie
  • Informal
1 7.7

Light women's underwear like panties or bras

is more formal and stresses delicate attractive design rather than slang
underclothes
vslingerie
1.5

Clothes worn next to the skin under other clothes

is the women's, decorative type rather than general basic underlayers
undergarb
vslingerie
5.9

Clothes worn next to your body, like underwear

is the feminine, often delicate and visually appealing subset

How Delicate

lingerie
  • NSFW
86 4.8
underwear
507 1.0

Surface Forms

lingerie singular
lingeries plural

Etymology

Lingerie comes from the French word linge, which means 'linen' and is like the English word linen. So lingerie originally meant fine linen clothes worn close to the body, and that's why today it means delicate women's underwear and nightclothes.